Before this period, some settlers, trappers, and backwoodsmen who were either Frenchmen from Canada or Englishmen from the British colonies, traveled through the trans Appalachian region, fighting the Native Americans, defending their lands. North America became more populated and prosperous, but expecially in 1860s, was the theatre of numerous bloody battles, involving Usa&Confederate soldiers, Natives, Mexicans, Canadians, Outlaws and many Civilians of different nationalities.

The GABRILDURO' s Bunch is proud to introduce you to this exciting historical adventure and wants to thank all the people that made this dream come true, and dedicate it to the first person that made a Western Mod for old M&B: ROCKWELL, with his beautiful The Blue&Grey. Thanks, mate!!

-Please DO NOT DOWNLOAD this Mod, unless you READ and DID all the following:

-INSTALL & TROUBLESHOOTING:

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GOOD NEWS: we basically fixed most of worst bugs!!!

PLS keep in mind, though, that you need a powerful pc for this mod. I personally have to play low/medium video performance with my cheap pc.

Please BEFORE reporting your "bugs" here, be sure it is a REAL bug and not just something you did not like or understand.

In case of serious PC problems

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In order to prevent the same questions from being asked over and over again, when you get a CTD or Heavy Lag: -If it's a CTD try to explain in detail what you were doing when the crash happened. Include things such as your ingame settings and such. For the heavy lag please include your ingame settings as well as your Pc specs.

Causes1. For Windows Vista/7 Anything above a 2 ghz processor, 2 gigs of ram, and 512mb. Windows xp is pretty much the same with a bit more leave way in terms of ram requirements. (Laptops require even more, unless its a laptop built specifically for gaming with high end specs a laptop performs horribly for gaming)

2. Having "Textures on Demand" not checked in the configure settings. (For every PC)

3. Having "Force Single Threading" not checked in the advanced settings. (Primarily for dual or quad core PC's)

4. Putting Ragdolls and Corpses to unlimited. (10 Ragdolls/40 Corpses or less is usually what you want)

5. Having your battlesizer over 200. (I suggest only going above 150 for PC's that exceed the specs I stated above)

6. Having your performance % under 100%. (The better the game looks, the slower it will run)

7. Having background programs running. (This eats up a ton of memory even if they aren't being used. Also M&B gets real anal when you alt + tab out of the game and typically crashes)

8. Having Anti-Aliasing on anything other than off/none. (For a game with graphics like M&B's this doesn't really do anything anyways, but your PC thinks it does and will still use massive amounts of video memory to try and make it work)

9. Having Edit mode selected in the advanced settings. (Only use this for debugging and never for actually playing the game)

4. Use the "Start Windowed" option in settings with 800x600 resolution. (Will help performance)

5. Set max frame rate to 70. Even less, 60 or even 50!!!!! (The human eye can only see 60 fps tops anyways, and that's with perfect vision. Having it set to a high number just because your PC can do it isn't always a good idea)I solved all my problems with this issue, and REMOVING BLOOD!!!!

6. Completely uninstall M&B and delete all files/registry files and do a fresh install. (Sometimes files become corrupted for whatever reason)

7. Turn off your networking and anti virus when you play the game, if you're using a hardcord for your networking unplug it from your PC just incase. (This will free up memory, which the game uses a ton of)

This is what I've experimented with during my time playing M&B. I personally use a 3ghz dual core, 4 gigs of ram, 2257mb video memory, and windows 7 64-bit. I never CTD, I don't lag in the battle maps with max settings and 250 battlesizer, and I have slight stutter on the World Map.

No matter how good your PC is, you will get stutter/lag on the World Map. This is due to the game's engine processing so many scripts constantly, and there is nothing you or Othr can do to fix that minus removing alot of shit.

If you are getting errors that show up with the red text, go into the notes and screen shot it then place it on the bugs board. More than likely it's an error in your installation because I have yet to see another one since this last patch.

If you get a CTD and it gives a pop-up with what caused it to crash take a screen shot of that and place it on the bugs board.If you haven't bothered to read this far and just spam the board I'll ask Othr to just delete your post and your questions will just be ignored. As new problems/fixes are found I'll add them to the list and let you all know it's been updated.

If the game now works well, increase few things at a time, to discover WHERE your problem was.

.1st WHEN STARTING M&B WB AND CHOOSING 1860s MOD, GO TO "CONFIGURE" AND THEN TO "HIDE BLOOD" / "ENABLE CHEATS" (they both should NOT be marked if you have PC performances problem). GO THEN TO "ADVANCED" AND CHECK IF "Enable Edit Mode" is on.(It should be OFF for best performance)

.2nd TURN DOWN ALL YOUR VIDEO SETTINGS, ALL OF THEM TO MINIMUM, BUT EXPECIALLY "MAX FRAME RATE" TO 60 "TREES DETAILS" AND ANY "SHADER/SHADOWS" TO MINIMUM- Do not set to zero "Monitor Gamma" of course....or your monitor will become BLACK!

.3rd TURN TO MINIMUM "BATTLE SIZE" AND ALL POSSIBLE GAME OPTIONS, EVEN INDICATORS.

If the game now works well, increase few things at a time, to discover WHERE your problem was.

In this way, according to every player' s taste, you will be able to play the faction and the geographical historical period that you like more.....in the best Gabby' games tradition, hehehehe !!!

CREDITS: (Old & New )First one to Azrooh (Secession Mod Developer) for supporting and actively helping me with textures and more (Thx Az!! ) and all Secession Boys as Rigadoon, Hinkel, Kegger, 5arge etc etc ....and expecially GOKILLER, for his last huge efforts!!!!

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SPECIAL THANKS TO:

ALAN DE SOISONAULDMANCRUMBS (not active at the moment)CELESTIALREDCUSTERDELLIVIS

GASTONLEADTAILMICHAELPOGO POOMTANGRADETZKY

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HISTORY EXPERTS: AULDMAN

SCENES MASTER: CAPTAIN ANTIGONOS

HELPERS: , AJOLIN, KIRIEL, LEN, ABADGAEM. GASTON, Cuireach, Wrc.

TESTERS: corytlh

MY VERY FIRST SUPPORTER AND GOOD FRIEND: ADMIRAL NELSON6262

Schredorz and his team should get full credit for their great Items, textures, animations, etc etc....We honored him creating a tavern companion with his name: SHREDZORZ. (THX Shredz!!)I want to thank for their support all people who sent a comment (SEE BELOW) and helped me in some way_ADMIRAL NELSON6262, CRUMBS (THE GREAT mohican head hunter!!!Thanks friend!!!), BEA1234, COSELETE, KIRIEL, SGCODE, IDIBIL AND ALL FANS AND FRIENDS.

OUR WIVES AND KIDS.

And all M&B and WB modders for the work they made and the fun they gave to all of us. ......you can understand their efforts only becoming a modder.In particular -AGE OF FALSE INNOCENCE which made the base of this mod, -1866 greatest western mod, expecially YELLOWMOSQUITO and Highlander for SPECIAL permission to use their whole creation (full credit and Mod description here: http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,166156.0.html)-The blue and the grey by ROCKWEL (first WESTERN MODE!!!) Thx Rock!!! -MORGH'S MOD TOOLS (THAT EVERYBODY USE AND DO NOT GIVE CREDIT!),Dejawolf, Talak, and Faradon for the use of their OSP, Struggle for Bermia, Renaissance, Kill the infidel, Blood and Steel, Star wars, Mesoamerica (Great mod about Hernan Cortez), Russia 1917, TEATRC, Hunt Mod, , Rathos for the "bisonshield" model, China battlefield (2nd world war), Hegemony 268 v.960, Flanged from gangs of glasgow, Gingolsfin for great maps, Aquil for dark textures, Smiley Stuff Osp,Yiyang Chen,Rabbit, White,Tei Fix for some crashes ,Yamabusi for wanderful Highlanders and expecially, for issues, help and always beeing supportive, IDIBIL of BRYTENWALDA, the best historical and very complete mod ever. AND THE GREAT -IYI-O-R-T- too!!!!!

You should check out Gabrilduro's 1860's Old America mod! It's a work in progress still, but it's an awesome Civil War era singleplayer mod made by a great group of guys.

Hah! Thanks for the link and the compliments, Azrooh I desire to underline that 1860s Old Frontier IS NOT a direct competitor of the Great Mod you guys made, as you well know, but some people still don' t It is about many things and wars/fights that went on between 1860 and 1869 (1860s ), in the east, North and West of the Usa , including of course the ACW, but not only.And unfortunately the Mod is at the moment taken care by me ALONE (with some help from ppl like you and Bravo ) but Dellivis and Auldman are very busy on 1776 (also still WIP) and Custer got a serious accident being hit on the road The rest of the Team is gone or not active, at the moment.But I am still positive about the ModThx for this Topic, againGabby

I'm fineee, just y'know cripple.. =oIt takes more then a car going 50km/h to get Ol Custer down (well i was down, but i got up again) =)I'm not allowed to move around to much, but i do so anyway, i'm the twitchy type =d

The GABRILDURO s Bunch is proud to introduce you to this exciting historical adventure and wants to thank all the people that made this dream come true, and dedicate it to the first person that made a Western Mod for old M&B: ROCKWELL, with his beautiful The Blue&Grey. Thanks, mate!!

In this way, according to every player' s taste, you will be able to play the faction and the geographical historical period that you like more.....in the best Gabby' games tradition, hehehehe !!!

CREDITS: (Old comments, before I took over this Mod & New ones!! )First one to Azrooh (Secession Mod Developer)for supporting and actively helping me with textures and more (Thx Az!! )

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Creelers for his coding workTrinityarse for his excellent historical researchGhost also for his excellent historical research(Old comment, before I took over this Mod ) Gabrilduro( Gabby) for his encouragement and enthusiasim, not to mention his scenes Crumbs the silent hunter, he knows what I mean.Antigonos for his scenesSwadian Man at Arms, for his help with the SP editionJoseph=donation of itemsJ12-19=donation of itemsShredorz=for letting us use his map&mod from AOFIThe Blue and Grey Team for weapons donationHinkel for his support and first class models Gaham1 for the original idea69th for the first official server1st yorks for purchasing/donating the second offical serverDraco wrath(Croft) for models such as revolving rifle.Tessiuss for his TS server, Gatling gun, ironclad ship.Dellivis for his for on the scenes, towns, forts and villagesProf Tournesei for weapons donation

Schredorz and his team should get full credit for their great Items, textures, animations, etc etc....We honored him creating a tavern companion with his name: SHREDZORZ. (THX Shredz!!)I want to thank for their support all people who sent a comment (SEE BELOW) and helped me in some way_ADMIRAL NELSON6262, CRUMBS (THE GREAT mohican head hunter!!!Thanks friend!!!), BEA1234, COSELETE, KIRIEL, SGCODE, IDIBIL AND ALL FANS AND FRIENDS. OUR WIVES AND KIDS.

And all M&B and WB modders for the work they made and the fun they gave to all of us. ......you can understand their efforts only becoming a modder.In particular AGE OF FALSE INNOCENCE which made the base of this mod, MORGH'S MOD TOOLS (THAT EVERYBODY USE AND DO NOT GIVE CREDIT!),Dejawolf, Talak, and Faradon for the use of their OSP, Struggle for Bermia, Renaissance, Kill the infidel, Blood and Steel, Star wars, 1866 greatest western mod, Mesoamerica (Great mod about Hernan Cortez), Russia 1917, TEATRC, Hunt Mod, The blue and the grey by ROCKWEL (first WESTERN MODE!!!), Rathos for the "bisonshield" model, China battlefield (2nd world war), Hegemony 268 v.960, Flanged from gangs of glasgow, Gingolsfin for great maps, Aquil for dark textures, Smiley Stuff Osp,Yiyang Chen,Rabbit, White,Tei Fix for some crashes ,Yamabusi for wanderful Highlanders and expecially, for issues, help and always beeing supportive, IDIBIL of BRYTENWALDA, the best historical and very complete mod ever. AND THE GREAT -IYI-O-R-T- too!!!!!

Before this period, some settlers, trappers, and backwoodsmen who were either Frenchmen from Canada or Englishmen from the British colonies, traveled through the trans Appalachian region, fighting the Native Americans, defending their lands. North America became more populated and prosperous, but expecially in 1860s, was the theatre of numerous bloody battles, involving Usa&Confederate soldiers, Natives, Mexicans, Canadians, Outlaws and many Civilians of different nationalities.

The GABRILDURO' s Bunch is proud to introduce you to this exciting historical adventure and wants to thank all the people that made this dream come true, and dedicate it to the first person that made a Western Mod for old M&B: ROCKWELL, with his beautiful The Blue&Grey. Thanks, mate!!

-Please DO NOT DOWNLOAD this Mod, unless you READ and DID all the following:

-INSTALL & TROUBLESHOOTING:

(click to show/hide)

GOOD NEWS: we basically fixed most of worst bugs!!!

PLS keep in mind, though, that you need a powerful pc for this mod. I personally have to play low/medium video performance with my cheap pc.

Please BEFORE reporting your "bugs" here, be sure it is a REAL bug and not just something you did not like or understand.

In case of serious PC problems

(click to show/hide)

In order to prevent the same questions from being asked over and over again, when you get a CTD or Heavy Lag: -If it's a CTD try to explain in detail what you were doing when the crash happened. Include things such as your ingame settings and such. For the heavy lag please include your ingame settings as well as your Pc specs.

Causes1. For Windows Vista/7 Anything above a 2 ghz processor, 2 gigs of ram, and 512mb. Windows xp is pretty much the same with a bit more leave way in terms of ram requirements. (Laptops require even more, unless its a laptop built specifically for gaming with high end specs a laptop performs horribly for gaming)

2. Having "Textures on Demand" not checked in the configure settings. (For every PC)

3. Having "Force Single Threading" not checked in the advanced settings. (Primarily for dual or quad core PC's)

4. Putting Ragdolls and Corpses to unlimited. (10 Ragdolls/40 Corpses or less is usually what you want)

5. Having your battlesizer over 200. (I suggest only going above 150 for PC's that exceed the specs I stated above)

6. Having your performance % under 100%. (The better the game looks, the slower it will run)

7. Having background programs running. (This eats up a ton of memory even if they aren't being used. Also M&B gets real anal when you alt + tab out of the game and typically crashes)

8. Having Anti-Aliasing on anything other than off/none. (For a game with graphics like M&B's this doesn't really do anything anyways, but your PC thinks it does and will still use massive amounts of video memory to try and make it work)

9. Having Edit mode selected in the advanced settings. (Only use this for debugging and never for actually playing the game)

4. Use the "Start Windowed" option in settings with 800x600 resolution. (Will help performance)

5. Set max frame rate to 70. Even less, 60 or even 50!!!!! (The human eye can only see 60 fps tops anyways, and that's with perfect vision. Having it set to a high number just because your PC can do it isn't always a good idea)I solved all my problems with this issue, and REMOVING BLOOD!!!!

6. Completely uninstall M&B and delete all files/registry files and do a fresh install. (Sometimes files become corrupted for whatever reason)

7. Turn off your networking and anti virus when you play the game, if you're using a hardcord for your networking unplug it from your PC just incase. (This will free up memory, which the game uses a ton of)

This is what I've experimented with during my time playing M&B. I personally use a 3ghz dual core, 4 gigs of ram, 2257mb video memory, and windows 7 64-bit. I never CTD, I don't lag in the battle maps with max settings and 250 battlesizer, and I have slight stutter on the World Map.

No matter how good your PC is, you will get stutter/lag on the World Map. This is due to the game's engine processing so many scripts constantly, and there is nothing you or Othr can do to fix that minus removing alot of shit.

If you are getting errors that show up with the red text, go into the notes and screen shot it then place it on the bugs board. More than likely it's an error in your installation because I have yet to see another one since this last patch.

If you get a CTD and it gives a pop-up with what caused it to crash take a screen shot of that and place it on the bugs board.If you haven't bothered to read this far and just spam the board I'll ask Othr to just delete your post and your questions will just be ignored. As new problems/fixes are found I'll add them to the list and let you all know it's been updated.

If the game now works well, increase few things at a time, to discover WHERE your problem was.

.1st WHEN STARTING M&B WB AND CHOOSING 1860s MOD, GO TO "CONFIGURE" AND THEN TO "HIDE BLOOD" / "ENABLE CHEATS" (they both should NOT be marked if you have PC performances problem). GO THEN TO "ADVANCED" AND CHECK IF "Enable Edit Mode" is on.(It should be OFF for best performance)

.2nd TURN DOWN ALL YOUR VIDEO SETTINGS, ALL OF THEM TO MINIMUM, BUT EXPECIALLY "MAX FRAME RATE" TO 60 "TREES DETAILS" AND ANY "SHADER/SHADOWS" TO MINIMUM- Do not set to zero "Monitor Gamma" of course....or your monitor will become BLACK!

.3rd TURN TO MINIMUM "BATTLE SIZE" AND ALL POSSIBLE GAME OPTIONS, EVEN INDICATORS.

If the game now works well, increase few things at a time, to discover WHERE your problem was.

In this way, according to every player' s taste, you will be able to play the faction and the geographical historical period that you like more.....in the best Gabby' games tradition, hehehehe !!!

CREDITS: (Old & New )First one to Azrooh (Secession Mod Developer) for supporting and actively helping me with textures and more (Thx Az!! ) and all Secession Boys as Rigadoon, Hinkel, Kegger, 5arge etc etc ....and expecially GOKILLER, for his last huge efforts!!!!

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SPECIAL THANKS TO:

ALAN DE SOISONAULDMANCRUMBS (not active at the moment)CELESTIALREDCUSTERDELLIVIS

GASTONLEADTAILMICHAELPOGO POOMTANGRADETZKY

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HISTORY EXPERTS: AULDMAN

SCENES MASTER: CAPTAIN ANTIGONOS

HELPERS: , AJOLIN, KIRIEL, LEN, ABADGAEM. GASTON, Cuireach, Wrc.

TESTERS: corytlh

MY VERY FIRST SUPPORTER AND GOOD FRIEND: ADMIRAL NELSON6262

Schredorz and his team should get full credit for their great Items, textures, animations, etc etc....We honored him creating a tavern companion with his name: SHREDZORZ. (THX Shredz!!)I want to thank for their support all people who sent a comment (SEE BELOW) and helped me in some way_ADMIRAL NELSON6262, CRUMBS (THE GREAT mohican head hunter!!!Thanks friend!!!), BEA1234, COSELETE, KIRIEL, SGCODE, IDIBIL AND ALL FANS AND FRIENDS.

OUR WIVES AND KIDS.

And all M&B and WB modders for the work they made and the fun they gave to all of us. ......you can understand their efforts only becoming a modder.In particular -AGE OF FALSE INNOCENCE which made the base of this mod, -1866 greatest western mod, expecially YELLOWMOSQUITO and Highlander for SPECIAL permission to use their whole creation (full credit and Mod description here: http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,166156.0.html)-The blue and the grey by ROCKWEL (first WESTERN MODE!!!) Thx Rock!!! -MORGH'S MOD TOOLS (THAT EVERYBODY USE AND DO NOT GIVE CREDIT!),Dejawolf, Talak, and Faradon for the use of their OSP, Struggle for Bermia, Renaissance, Kill the infidel, Blood and Steel, Star wars, Mesoamerica (Great mod about Hernan Cortez), Russia 1917, TEATRC, Hunt Mod, , Rathos for the "bisonshield" model, China battlefield (2nd world war), Hegemony 268 v.960, Flanged from gangs of glasgow, Gingolsfin for great maps, Aquil for dark textures, Smiley Stuff Osp,Yiyang Chen,Rabbit, White,Tei Fix for some crashes ,Yamabusi for wanderful Highlanders and expecially, for issues, help and always beeing supportive, IDIBIL of BRYTENWALDA, the best historical and very complete mod ever. AND THE GREAT -IYI-O-R-T- too!!!!!

Already? Awesome work! Will get to playing this as soon as I'm less busy.

Hah! This is not the NEW version Gokiller is working at, though! It seems poor Gok is having some problems adding all that new stuff, expecially from Blue&Grey and the tons of issues of 1866, (for which I got full special permission ).

Since it may take still too long to him, and I don t want to push his work, I just did a very small update of my old version, all by myself, and mostly to help players to download it to a safer Site (M&B Repository).Megaupload is having problems, it seems...

Thx for your support, and to all the "Secession" boys that are following/helping our progress with the New 1860s version, and a super special thx to Gokiller for his huge effort in creating the best "base" on which we all will be able to work and contribute to the progress of the Mod!